Unit 4 Script 10 to test one listen to five book descriptions and do the task in your book.0:02
Five popular books Orbital Resonance by John Barnes is a brilliant and very readable book.0:17
The main character, 13 year old melpamine Murray, takes part in an exciting journey through space aboard the Flying Dutchman.0:27
Melpamine lives on the Flying Dutchman, cycling between Earth and Mars with her parents and her brother, and she goes to a very interesting school.0:34
The book is written in the form of a school project whose aim is to explain life in space to people on Earth.0:43
The book I Robot by AI Asimov is a series of short stories in which the central character is an elderly robot psychologist named Susan Calvin.0:54
She gives an interview shortly before her death.1:04
The stories grew from Izimov's opinion that anyone smart enough to create robots would be smart enough to make sure that those robots would never attack their makers.1:08
The stories describe the early history of robotics, the science of building robots.1:19
The reader learns about the different stages of robot development.1:24
The author thinks that robots are a better breed than humans, though they were created to serve.1:28
Someday they will become the masters.1:34
Glory Season by David Brin recently became a blockbuster.1:41
Lysos, the main character founds a human colony on the isolated planet of Stratos.1:46
His idea is to create a happier life there.1:54
The result is that most of the population of Stratos consists of financially successful groups of female clones.1:57
Stratos is portrayed as a practical feminist society dominated by clones.2:06
A traveler has come from a great distance and threatens to destroy the perfect society on Stratos.2:12
The main character of the novel the Time Machine by G. Wells is a scientist whom the author named the Time Traveller.2:22
He believes in time traveling.2:30
During dinner, the Time Traveller tells his guests that he has invented a time machine.2:32
He shows them a small model and says that when he switches it on, it disappears into the future.2:37
The next week he joins his guests again, only to tell them about astonishing adventures which he had while time travelling.2:44
The Invisible man by Gerbert Wells is about a scientist who made himself invisible.2:54
Griffin has a laboratory where he works night and day to create a formula that will make him visible again.2:59
Finally, he comes into the home of a former college professor who he thinks will be interested in his experiments and help him.3:06
Mr. Camp, however, reads the newspapers about Griffin's terrible crimes against people in the town and reports him to the police.3:13
Griffin is caught and killed.3:21
After that he becomes visible again.3:23
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